After studying Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has finally given us a close-up view of its small moon Pan. And it shows how strange the Saturn moon is.
NASA on Thursday released pictures of Pan, one of Saturn's many moons, and its distinctive shape is drawing comparisons to flying saucers and stuffed pasta. The images of the moon come courtesy of NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and reveal the UFO-like form of the tiny satellite, which has an average radius of just 8.8 miles.
Does going into space fundamentally change our biology? It's not a casual question. Human beings evolved to live in a very specific ecological niche, and no matter how tough DNA is , nature never planned for us to sit on a pile of explosives and fling ourselves into an airless void full of rocks and ionizing radiation.
But a self-styled astronomer has accused the space agency of covering up the truth that WF9 will hit us directly. Dr Dyomin Damir Zakharovich has warned the impact could wipe out a city if it strikes land or cause a devastating tsunami if it lands in the sea.
A stunning new image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the closest view yet of Saturn's 'wavemaker' mini-moon Daphnis as it creates ripples along inside one of the planet's rings. The 5-mile-wide moon orbits within a 26 mile wide gap known as the Keeler Gap, and its gravity causes the edges to 'wave' in both the horizontal and vertical directions.
There's no end to the earthly items that Red Planet UFO enthusiasts have "discovered" on Mars - a snake , a coffin , traffic light , cat , lizard , even a sasquatch , just to name a few. But, as Live Science reports, one rock that has piqued scientists' interest is a unusual dark-gray object that seems out of place with the rest of the reddish rock and dirt spread across the Martian landscape.
There's no end to the earthly items that Red Planet UFO enthusiasts have "discovered" on Mars - a snake , a coffin , traffic light , cat , lizard , even a sasquatch , just to name a few. But, as Live Science reports, one rock that has piqued scientists' interest is a unusual dark-gray object that seems out of place with the rest of the reddish rock and dirt spread across the Martian landscape.
Dill Martin who claims to be "revealing the truth in these end times" has published a number of videos supposedly showing the alien world in the skies above Earth. Dill seems to believe this other second light is a planet and his many supporters fear it heralds the coming apocalypse.
An artist's rendering of a black hole that's 2 billion times more massive than our sun. Streams of particles ejected from black holes like this one are thought to be the brightest objects in the universe.
Many conspiracy theorists have taken the initiative to find life on Mars by analyzing every picture that is sent back to Earth from the red planet. Now, one Martian researcher believes to have found a trove of evidence captured by the Curiosity Rover that he says 'are all signs of life on Mars'.
The upper image shows relatively cloud-free skies, while the lower one captures widespread cloud cover. NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew over Titan on June 7 and July 25 and captured strikingly different photos of the moon's high northern latitude using the probe's Imaging Science Subsystem and Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer .
The Martian south pole is dotted with strange networks of branching troughs known as 'spiders,' each carved through years of erosion as seasonal carbon dioxide thaws. Using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers have detected cumulative channel growth from one Martian spring to another for the first time.